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If you've been using the Amazon Product Advertising API and suddenly started seeing the AssociateNotEligible error since November 12th, you're not alone. Many users of the Amazon Associates Program have reported disruptions, and the root cause might be simpler than you think: your API key. Hopefully, no users of my Content - Amazon Product Advertising API plugin won't have been affected, but there's no way to know until they contact me.
Read more: AssociateNotEligible Errors with Amazon Product Advertising API
The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked both innovation and chaos within search engine optimization (SEO). As a software developer with years of experience in web technologies like Joomla and self-hosted solutions, I've seen trends come and go. Recently, I shared some thoughts on X (formerly Twitter) about the pitfalls of over-relying on AI slop content creation and the enduring value of solid technical practices.
As a Joomla developer, I often leave local dev site tabs open in the background for hours, sometimes days. Recently, I switched back to one of these tabs for a quick check, with the DevTools Network panel open. To my horror, dozens, maybe over a hundred AJAX calls fired at once, flooding the network log. The browser froze, navigation stalled, and it took agonizing seconds to recover. “That’s why it’s so slow sometimes!” I realized, pinpointing Joomla’s Lazy Scheduler as the culprit, piling up tasks in the background. This frustrating experience reminded me of the tried and true solution: regular cron with Joomla’s scheduler:run CLI command.
As a software developer and web admin, AI is my secret weapon. I feed it code snippets, API docs, and debug prompts, churning out prototypes or fixes in minutes; hours of grunt work slashed. I've even built Joomla publishing tools that utilize AI: System - AI Meta. But I’m meticulous: sensitive configs stay air-gapped, proprietary datasets never touch the cloud. I’ve spent years fencing off crawlers like GPTBot, keeping client data out of AI training pipelines. AI browsers threaten to make that effort a complete waste of time.
Negative SEO uses malicious tactics to sabotage a website’s search engine rankings. A dangerous method, Negative SEO via URL Parameter Abuse, exploits a flaw in Joomla’s core System - SEF plugin’s canonical URL generation, enabling attackers to create duplicate content issues that harm rankings. This article explores this threat, how System - SEF causes it (as seen on an official Joomla site), why nearly all official Joomla sites disable the plugin (likely due to this exploit), and what RicheyWeb is doing about it - informed by SEO insights from dofollow.com.
The HTML head element is the backbone of your Joomla 5 site’s SEO, performance, and social media presence. It contains metadata that instructs browsers, search engines, and social platforms on how to handle your content. While Joomla excels at managing basic metadata like <title> and <meta name="description">, it lacks native support for advanced features like OpenGraph, Twitter Card tags, and extended robots directives. This guide provides Joomla developers and site owners with the bare minimum <head> tags, favicon setup, social media metadata, and SEO-focused links, leveraging plugins like Route 66 and RicheyWeb’s Fields - XMLForm, System - Link Canonical, System - Head Tag, and System - Meta Robots to simplify implementation and enhance SEO control.
Four weeks ago, I rolled the dice on my Texas gun show listings site. Old event pages were choking search results, serving up outdated content and frustrating users. My fix? A white-hat SEO trick called the unavailable_after meta tag to deindex those pages after they expired. The result was a wild ride: a 70% traffic plunge, followed by a near-full recovery over four weeks as my upcoming events (re)took over the SERPs. Is this the SEO hack you’ve been missing? Here’s how I did it, why it might be working, and how you can test it.
Read more: unavailable_after White-Hat SEO Hack Might Be Paying Off
I made a statement in the Joomla forums offering to describe how I use Varnish and Joomla together. Well...today is the day! Due to an unforeseen summer cold - I'm not doing the outside work that I thought I'd be doing, so it's time to make good on that promise.